The Lidice operation formed a war crimes charge against Herr Frank after the war, and Frank’s own lasting badge of infamy: the systematic destruction of the entire male population of an arbitrarily chosen village remains the emblematic crime of the Nazi occupation to this day.

40 thoughts on “1946: Karl Hermann Frank”

Evil is evil, regardless of the uniform. There was two major divisions in the SS, the soldiers were Waffen SS. akin to special forces. By all accounts were fanatical, to the death types, but still soldiers who fought for their country. Although In the Waffen SS there were the special groups (Einsatgruppen) that came along after the army and committed murders and atrocities. notably in the USSR. Some units in the field killed prisoners, but so did the US and GB! The other major division of the SS to which the Gestapo were a part of, were the prison camps administrators.
The sad note is much of the Jewish killings could have been slowed and even stopped had the Allies blown up the rail line to aushwitz which the flew over repeatedly (they knew what was there) only to bomb factories a few miles away.
In addition, the London blitz would have never have happened had not England bombed citizens in Hamburg first (reprisal). Lots if innocents were killed by all sides if the conflict. The United States used WMD to annihilated two Japanese cities that were full of normal people like u and me. This was terror bombing. Terrorism was invented by all sides in WW II and refined by Jewish leaders when they took over Palestine, forcing out Great Briton and the Palestinians. Best to know some history so we do not repeat it, yet we are still choosing to remain ignorant! Watch a documentary called, “I am” that is the way to solve our world problems, not war. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandella, Gandhi and Mother Terresa, they figured it out!

You need to do some research. The Gestapo was NOT part of the SS. You’re ramblings trying to rationalize the nazi butchers by saying other people also killed innocents is nauseating. If you can’t see the differnece it’s withe because you’re a moron or a nazi sympathizer. Frankly I don’t care which it is as you’re views are less than those of a cockaroach

I just wunder why a traitor like that wasn’t hanged upon capture and died in prison. During May 1945 a lot less worse SS were shot upon capture because of thier affiliations, either way i dont believe he suffered enough

I read recently Prague Fatale by Bernie Gunther, based upon actual events in Prague, even though the story is a novel. I learned of Frank through this book. William Boyd’s comment at 8, above, is right on target. The war could have been prevented had the US, GB & France enforced the WW I armistice terms & acted in1937-38. More to the point, the Nazis were evil & I don’t care to differentiate between “good” & “bad” SS. They all participated in the evil. In my mother’s tiny town in the hills of northern Italy, there was one pharmacist. He & his family were Jews. The SS executed them. Because they were Jews; a “crime” to be that. One of my Italian cousins, who I visited & therefore knew, was drafted into the Italian army. Taken prisoner twice, he was in 2 German POW camps. He escaped from the first , was re-captured & put into the second before the surrender. When Italy surrendered, he related that POWS in the second camp were ordered killed. He escaped before his number came up. That time he made it. His “crime”? Being part of an ineffective Italian army – and country – that surrendered. So, the execution of Frank was well-deserved. That not more were executed was travesty. That many went on to work for the US Army, spy agencies & even our government was even worse. I shed no tears for Frank & his ilk, nor for that matter, for the greater number of men in the German army, for many had no conscience whatsoever.

“Handfull”? The great majority of Nazis were thugs and monsters. The SS, the “innocent” Weirmar–all killed innocents happily and without regret. Obviously some are still with us; may your deaths be agonizing.

Most of you people don´t know what you are talking about.
K.H. Frank never was a SS Soldier.He was a member of the”allgemeine SS” but a politician with the Rang of a SS Gruppenfuehrer. Like for exemple v. Ribbentrop, he was the foreigh minister, but also a Gruppenfuehrer of the allgemeine SS.So what I mean is, Frank did´t not deserve any kind of credit as a very brave SS Soldier,because he was not.On the other hand, you should not blame the whole SS, including all outfits, for all the crimes done by only a handfull or at least ordered by only a handfull of
politicians waering the SS Uniform.

The SS murdered in cold blood over 27 Canadian POWs on D-Day,Many from my home town.Thereafter the Canadians would allow Wermacht soldiers to surrender but shot or hung any SS man they captured.They should have killed everyone of those scumbags after making them eat their own testicles.Any motherfucker who says seig heil like that hispanic cocksucker above me ,please come to Canada and we’ll turn you into a greasy spot.

I see a man submissive propelled to his death. I see an executioners very fingers push into his eyes, and force his head back. I see smiles on the faces of the executioners. I see consciousness lost, and a rapid end to life. Even to watch this, the end of an evil, evil creature, diminishes me, and I wonder by what right I watch it from the comfort of my home. I see uniforms, and the assumed right to take life, I see ritual, gross mankind, myself included.

The SS was a criminal organisation established by a homicidal regime, so well described by Sir Alan Bullock as as a bunch of spivs an gangsters. Its ‘brave’ actions were mainly against civilians, including children and women, as well as prisoners of war. Its ‘battlefields’ were Babi Yar, Auchwitz, Dachau, the Warsaw ghetto, Licdice .. the list of ‘triumphs’ is long. Its strengths were logistics and adminstration – the industrial destruction of human populations – rather than battle; the operation of execution chambers rather than military field operations. As to whether this man is fearful at his own death, I prefer to think rather he overwhelmed by the burden of realising at the end the horror of his participation in THE most henous criminal enterprise in history which even Heinrich Himmler, knowing the extent of what had been done, descibed at Posen as “a glorious page in our history that could not and never would be written” … what kind of glory is it that can never be shown to world?

There is not dignity who – like Karl Hermann Frank – killed innocent people. A autentic soldier fight witch soldier, not wich innocents and inofensive people. Karl Hermann Frank was a coward and died like one.

Not all members of the SS were war criminals, a large part of the SS were like our SAS very well trained soldiers. However I must say that the second world war and the rise of Hitler would not have happened if America, GB and France had acted sooner, only an idiot would not have known what Hitler was up to when his party started on the Jews long before the war, and his build up of the military, airforce and navy. The second world war could have been prevented.